Achievement Unlocked: Sell a story twice.
I just found out that I’ve sold “Something Rich and Strange” a second time, to Digital Fantasy Fiction. They were looking for works that had appeared before, but within very specific guidelines: they couldn’t be available in text form anywhere, for example.
Fortunately, I had this story, which I’d previously sold to The Overcast for their podcast. Also fortunately, I’d been too busy to self-publish it on Amazon.
“There is a common attack on art that thinks it is a defense. It is the argument that art has no impact on our lives, that art is not dangerous, and therefore all art is beyond reproach, and we have no grounds to object to any of it, and any objection is censorship.”
I’ve encountered that view (specifically about SF, from someone who I suspect was some sort of puppy – it was a random encounter on another person’s G+ comment thread, so I can’t be sure). I disagree with it profoundly. Who we represent in media, and how we represent them, matters, because it both reflects and shapes how we, as a society, think about our fellow humans. That’s what I mean when I say that fiction is political.
(via MrsA Wiggins)
Originally shared by Chloe CD
[…]I was trying to articulate that there is a canonical body of literature in which women’s stories are taken away from them, in which all we get are men’s stories. And that these are sometimes not only books that don’t describe the world from a woman’s point of view, but inculcate denigration and degradation of women as cool things to do.
http://lithub.com/men-explain-lolita-to-me
As someone who is currently interrogating pop culture for a podcast and a blog when she can manage to write, I am having all the feels about this essay.
Rewrite request from a new prozine. They want a stronger ending.
I think I have one that’s more in tune with the main character. More heroic, less sensible. It might be just crazy enough to work.
I was working on my Writing Short book yesterday, tinkering with the ideas chapter, and this is more or less what I said there (and what Neil Gaiman says when people ask him).
Ideas are easy. Execution is hard.
Originally shared by John Yeoman
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Representation is hard.
Originally shared by Mary Fan
10 bizarre ways reading/writing while underrepresented messes with your head
A funny thing happens when you’re from an underrepresented group. Several funny things, actually. Things that dig their way into your skull whether you like it or not. Of course, I can only speak for myself (as an Asian American… specifically, a Chinese A…
I have a supers story cooking on the backburner involving the (rogue) editing of human embryos with Crispr, something that this article addresses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/magazine/the-crispr-quandary.html?smid=go-share
Via Sarah Rios, a great example from around the time of my birth of how creators were starting to think about the importance of diversity and representation in media.
Originally shared by Will Shetterly
So you won NaNoWriMo, and now you have 50,000 or so words that might, with hard work, become a novel some day.
The smart way to do revision is to go in understanding how sentence structure and punctuation work, and with a handy list of a hundred or so easily confused words at your elbow.
Where can you get that? Right here.
Click the link, and if you like what you find, there’s a book with much more.
The latest Author Earnings report looks at Amazon UK, the second-biggest market for ebooks in English.
Most of the findings are not surprising. There’s a clear difference in book pricing from large publishers, which has the effect you would expect.
The surprising finding, though, is that indies are significantly outperforming traditional publishing in selling books across both markets (US and UK) rather than just their local market.
This is a common error.
Also, follow Karen Conlin if you don’t already.
Originally shared by Karen Conlin
Anymore or any more?
“Anymore” means “any longer, to any further extent.” I can’t walk anymore.
“Any more” means, well — any more of something. I can’t eat any more. Of what? Turkey, perhaps, or cheesecake, or polenta, or doughnuts . . . or maybe just “food.” It’s not necessary to specify precisely what you can’t eat more of, but it’s also not wrong if it makes sense to do so.
I can’t eat any more pizza. I don’t like it anymore. (That’s alarming, I’m sure.)
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